A DIGITAL SOLUTION TO THE EU/US SKILLED HEALTHCARE WORKER SHORTAGE The HITCOMP Tool and Repository

Background: EU-US eHealth Collaboration Initiative Memorandum of Understanding It started with a Memorandum of Understanding In December 2010, the European Commission and the US Department of Health and Human Services signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to: – Help facilitate more effective uses of eHealth/Health IT; – Strengthen their international relationship; and – Support global cooperation in the area of health related information and communication technologies In June 2013, key stakeholders and interested parties were invited to participate in the EU-US eHealth Collaborative Initiative In August 2013, two work groups were launched, from the two initiative work streams of Interoperability and Workforce Development Workforce Development

Membership EU-US Workforce Development Workgroup Work Group Members represent 13 countries Canada England Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Israel Italy Mexico Norway Scotland United States

Background: EU-US eHealth Collaboration Initiative Goals and Objectives Goals of the EU-US Workforce Development Workgroup: To achieve a robust supply of health professionals highly proficient in the use of HIT To assure current and future workforces have the required technology skills needed to be successful, and enhance experience and performance within the eHealth/Health IT Ecosystem To support an innovative collaborative community of public- and private sector eHealth/Health IT entities, working toward the shared objective of developing, deploying, and using eHealth science and technology To define standards, develop competencies and produce useful tools that support this work

Challenges EU-US Workforce Development Workgroup Members met every week for 20 months, in addition to extra meetings, conferences and presentations Three big challenges: – Evaluating and harmonizing workforce development standards, methods and tools – Mapping, synthesizing and resolution of competencies thousands of HIT competencies, hundreds of HIT roles, Numerous HIT areas and domains, Ensuring the efforts are compatible, consumable and coordinated – Ensuring the results are compatible, consumable and coordinated

What we have accomplished to date: Compiled over 3000 HIT competencies from 15+ organizations throughout North America and Europe Integrated Bloom’s taxonomy and adult learning principles into competencies -- enhancing usability for career entry/ladder progression, staffing, job description development, instructional design, curriculum development, and more Completed a role‐skills‐based mapping for over 250 HIT-impacted roles in healthcare, with high applicability for defining, developing and expanding existing and emerging healthcare workforce members worldwide Aggregated, catalogued, leveled and synthesized data into targeted HIT competencies in five domains: Direct Patient Care, Administration, Informatics, Engineering/ICT and Research Developed the HITCOMP tool — an interactive HIT role‐level competencies filtering and research tool and repository — which can be used by HR managers, workers, credentialing agencies, educators and other HIT entities to research Background: EU-US eHealth Collaboration Initiative Achieving the Goals

HITCOMP Tool

HITCOMP User Stories: Individual, Educators, HIT Managers and HR

US POINT OF CONTACTS MERA CHOI, JAMIE PARKER, GAYATHRI JAYAWARDENA, CHRISTINA NGUYEN, AMANDA MERRILL, JOHN FEIKEMA, EU POINT OF CONTACTS MARY CLEARY, FRANK CUNNINGHAM, RACHELLE KAYE, US/EU POINT OF CONTACT RACHELLE BLAKE,

THANK YOU EU-US WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT WORKGROUP RACHELLE BLAKE, PA, MHA, CEO, PRESIDENT AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, OMNI MICRO SYSTEMS, INC. AND OMNI MED SOLUTIONS UG RACHELLE KAYE, PHD, CEO, KAYE HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS CONSULTING SERVICES LTD

EU-US Workforce Development Project Timeline Kick-off eHealth Cooperation Initiative (6/20) September May 11 June 2013 Launch of Workforce Developme nt Sub Workgroup (8/20) January 2014 Group reached agreement on Health IT Setting (9/12) Group reached agreement on Classification Schema for Competencies and Roles (11/12) Finalized mapping Roles to Classification Scheme Setting (01/02) March Finalized applying Classifications to Competencies; defined domains, levels and buckets (03/31) Finalized first Role to Competency Mapping (4/24) Presented work at eHealth Week in Athens (5/14) Finalized all Direct Patient Care Domain mapping (7/10) Finalized second domain Competency Mapping (Administration) (12/30) Presented at eHealth Week in Boston (Oct 21-22) Finalized competencies in remaining three domains/finali zed tool; Present in Riga Developed Marketing Materials; Launched online interactive competency tools (HIT COMP); Communicated Progress to Stakeholders (9/4) Began Curriculum to Competency Gap Analysis and Mapping (8/6) November – December July 2014 September January 2015 March – May 2015 October August Finalized work on proof of concept curriculum needs/gap analysis (1/29) Key: Completed In Progress Future